From Zero to HERO - How a First Time Entrepreneur Sold Everything to Transform an Industry with John Day: An EOFire Classic from 2022
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
John Day quit his job and sold everything to launch AV HERO in March 2020. AV HERO is now the largest network of audio visual experts in the United States.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Don't let fear stop you. Every day you show up, do the scariest thing first. Once you do that, fear will have much less power in your life.
2. Everybody is rethinking their lives, creating issues in the workplace. People realize that their value is more than what they were being compensated for.
3. AV Hero is taking advantage of the freelance gig economy, providing people options around their schedule and compensation. It's going to be the obvious choice for people who may have issues with audio-visual technology.
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| 0:00.0 | Who's ready to rock today, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire, brought to you by High Level, the all-on-one sales and marketing platform on today's classic episode. |
| 0:13.6 | We'll be breaking down from zero to hero, how we first time entrepreneur sold everything to transform an industry to drop these vibe bonds. |
| 0:20.4 | I brought to John Day and EO Fire Studios. John quit his day job and sold everything to launch AV Hero in March of 2020. AV Hero is now the largest network of audio visual experts in the United States. And Fire Nation, today we'll be talking about how you can't let fear stop you. Every day you show up, do the scariest thing first. Once you do that, fear will have much less power in your life and owe so much more. |
| 0:41.8 | And the big thing for sponsoring today's episode goes to John and our sponsors. |
| 0:46.5 | Are you ready for the ultimate all in one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies? |
| 0:53.3 | Build funnels, automate follow-ups, manage clients, |
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| 1:09.7 | John, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about |
| 1:15.3 | becoming successful that most people disagree with. Hey, Fire Nation, what's up? I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:21.9 | And John, thank you for this opportunity. Great question. You know, the thing I would say that I believe most people disagree with |
| 1:30.3 | is the idea that you can be and do anything you want to in life. I know that that's a classic |
| 1:38.5 | motivational thing, right? You put your mind to it, but I firmly believe that actually we were |
| 1:44.1 | designed to do specific |
| 1:46.7 | things and have been given very specific gifts and talents. For instance, if I think about |
| 1:53.7 | dancing or drawing or cooking, these are three things I'm terrible at, and no amount of effort will make me great at them. |
| 2:02.9 | Now I'm telling you my wife will she'll tell you the same thing. So I might be able to become |
| 2:07.1 | average at these things, but never great. But on the flip side, sales, public speaking, music, |
| 2:15.1 | these are things that come very natural to me. And I'm in the process of |
| 2:19.3 | becoming great at, I believe. So I think we need to stop telling people they can be anything |
| 2:24.0 | they want to be and do anything they want to do and actually help them focus on what they're |
| 2:29.1 | naturally good at and foster those talents. Well, I love that concept. I love that premise. I think it's a great |
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